Comic Timing by Holly Pester
PBS Wild Card Spring 2021 Keiran Goddard non-white body as both vulnerable

non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('flèche')

The African overtones draws you into lives that are real and gritty

and from the stimulus of the other’s poem arriving in the e-mail in-tray

'Exceptional

and one a meditation on gratitude - that work at the edges of belief and doubt

Comic Timing by Holly Pester <br> <b> PBS Wild Card Spring 2021</b> Keiran Goddard non-white body as both vulnerablePBS Wild Card Spring 2021 Comic Timing, Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical and resistant act. These poems shunt a reader between the political and personal via unique, fragmentary and illusory turns of phrase. Holly tackles marginal bodies, landlords, bog butter, desire, domestic and civic spaces in an unique and illusory voice. She chronicles the prevailing mood of our